Imaging your HDD

[goku2100]

I was wondering how I could image a windows 2000 system on a 2GB HDD with only a CDROM drive remotely. I have this computer on a network with computers that have CDRW drives and wanted to know if I could remotely image the HDD of that computer. I also need to make sure that this image will also work with any other HDD I plan to image on in the future in case the original HDD goes bad.

 

[SkyHi]

Well, you could use DOS, I believe you can see the network with that, can't you. If you can, copy it? Also, theres a program called... erum... ghost?

 

[ekÆsine]

Using the home versions of Ghost (which retails for about $20-50 at stores) you can restore an image to that computer over your network. I know for sure Ghost 2003 can do it, but I'm not sure what has changed in Ghost 9.0 or 8.0, do some research

 

[goku2100]

Problem with GHOST is that it requires it to be the SAME EXACT drive as before... I think.. Also I don't need to restore it through the network but just back it up, burn it to a CD then restore it when needed.

 

[ekÆsine]

I've restored Ghost images from a different hard disk before so I know that using different disks work. Ghost has cd-r, dvd-r burning capability so you can use it to burn to a disc and restore it using your cd-rom